Louisa : a poetical novel, in four epistles / by Miss Seward.

  • Seward, Anna, 1742-1809
Date:
1784
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Credit: Louisa : a poetical novel, in four epistles / by Miss Seward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As on this fhady bank I fat reclin’d, My voice, that floated, on the waving wind, Taught the foft echos of the neighb’ring plains Milton’s fweet lays, in Handel’s matchlcfs ftrains. Prefaging notes my lips unconfcious try, And murmur'—•“ * Hide me from Day’s garifh eye ! ” Ah ! blefl, had Death a fhade eternal thrown. And hid me from the woes I flnce have known ! Beneath my trembling fingers lightly rung The Lute’s fweet chords, refponfive while I fung. Faint in the yellow broom the Oxen lay. And the mute Birds fat languid on the fpray; And nought was heard, around the noon-tide bow’r, Save, that the mountain Bee, from flow’r to flow’r, Seem’d to prolong, with her afiiduous wing, The foft vibration of the tuneful firing; While the fierce Skies flam’d on the fhrinking Rills, And fultry Silence brooded o’er the Hills 1 As on my lip the ling’ring Cadence play’d, My Brother gaily bounded down the Glade, ^ Aninchanting Song of Handers, from Milton’s II Penferofo. And,